Top 33 David Johansen Quotes
#1. In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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#3. I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
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#4. You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
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#5. Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.
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#6. The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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#8. Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
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#9. When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
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#10. It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
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#12. I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
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#13. When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'
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#14. We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.
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#15. Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.
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#16. I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
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#17. I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
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#18. I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
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#19. I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
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#20. I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.
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#21. Young people are still looking and older people have found ...
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#22. Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
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#23. You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.
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#25. Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
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#26. I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
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#27. The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
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#28. I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
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#29. I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
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#31. Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
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#32. My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
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#33. As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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